community.docker.docker_image module – Manage docker images

Note

This module is part of the community.docker collection (version 3.13.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.docker. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.docker.docker_image.

Synopsis

• Build, load or pull an image, making the image available for creating containers. Also supports tagging an image, pushing an image, and archiving an image to a .tar file.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• Docker API >= 1.25

• backports.ssl_match_hostname (when using TLS on Python 2)

• paramiko (when using SSH with use_ssh_client=false)

• pyOpenSSL (when using TLS)

• pywin32 (when using named pipes on Windows 32)

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_version aliases: docker_api_version string	The version of the Docker API running on the Docker Host. Defaults to the latest version of the API supported by this collection and the docker daemon. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_API_VERSION will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Default: "auto"
archive_path path	Use with state=present to archive an image to a .tar file.
build dictionary	Specifies options used for building images.
args dictionary	Provide a dictionary of key:value build arguments that map to Dockerfile ARG directive. Docker expects the value to be a string. For convenience any non-string values will be converted to strings.
cache_from list / elements=string	List of image names to consider as cache source.
container_limits dictionary	A dictionary of limits applied to each container created by the build process.
cpusetcpus string	CPUs in which to allow execution. For example, 0-3 or 0,1.
cpushares integer	CPU shares (relative weight).
memory string	Memory limit for build in format <number>[<unit>]. Number is a positive integer. Unit can be B (byte), K (kibibyte, 1024B), M (mebibyte), G (gibibyte), T (tebibyte), or P (pebibyte). Omitting the unit defaults to bytes. Before community.docker 3.6.0, no units were allowed.
memswap string	Total memory limit (memory + swap) for build in format <number>[<unit>], or the special values unlimited or -1 for unlimited swap usage. Number is a positive integer. Unit can be B (byte), K (kibibyte, 1024B), M (mebibyte), G (gibibyte), T (tebibyte), or P (pebibyte). Omitting the unit defaults to bytes. Before community.docker 3.6.0, no units were allowed, and neither was the special value unlimited.
dockerfile string	Use with state=present and source=build to provide an alternate name for the Dockerfile to use when building an image. This can also include a relative path (relative to build.path).
etc_hosts dictionary	Extra hosts to add to /etc/hosts in building containers, as a mapping of hostname to IP address. Instead of an IP address, the special value host-gateway can also be used, which resolves to the host’s gateway IP and allows building containers to connect to services running on the host.
http_timeout integer	Timeout for HTTP requests during the image build operation. Provide a positive integer value for the number of seconds.
labels dictionary added in community.docker 3.6.0	Dictionary of key value pairs.
network string	The network to use for RUN build instructions.
nocache boolean	Do not use cache when building an image. Choices: false ← (default) true
path path / required	Use with state ‘present’ to build an image. Will be the path to a directory containing the context and Dockerfile for building an image.
platform string added in community.docker 1.1.0	Platform in the format os[/arch[/variant]].
pull boolean	When building an image downloads any updates to the FROM image in Dockerfile. Choices: false ← (default) true
rm boolean	Remove intermediate containers after build. Choices: false true ← (default)
shm_size string added in community.docker 3.6.0	Size of /dev/shm in format <number>[<unit>]. Number is positive integer. Unit can be B (byte), K (kibibyte, 1024B), M (mebibyte), G (gibibyte), T (tebibyte), or P (pebibyte). Omitting the unit defaults to bytes. If you omit the size entirely, Docker daemon uses 64M.
target string	When building an image specifies an intermediate build stage by name as a final stage for the resulting image.
use_config_proxy boolean	If set to true and a proxy configuration is specified in the docker client configuration (by default $HOME/.docker/config.json), the corresponding environment variables will be set in the container being built. Choices: false true
ca_path aliases: ca_cert, tls_ca_cert, cacert_path path	Use a CA certificate when performing server verification by providing the path to a CA certificate file. If the value is not specified in the task and the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH is set, the file ca.pem from the directory specified in the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH will be used. This option was called ca_cert and got renamed to ca_path in community.docker 3.6.0. The old name has been added as an alias and can still be used.
client_cert aliases: tls_client_cert, cert_path path	Path to the client’s TLS certificate file. If the value is not specified in the task and the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH is set, the file cert.pem from the directory specified in the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH will be used.
client_key aliases: tls_client_key, key_path path	Path to the client’s TLS key file. If the value is not specified in the task and the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH is set, the file key.pem from the directory specified in the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH will be used.
debug boolean	Debug mode Choices: false ← (default) true
docker_host aliases: docker_url string	The URL or Unix socket path used to connect to the Docker API. To connect to a remote host, provide the TCP connection string. For example, tcp://192.0.2.23:2376. If TLS is used to encrypt the connection, the module will automatically replace tcp in the connection URL with https. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_HOST will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Default: "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
force_absent boolean	Use with state=absent to un-tag and remove all images matching the specified name. Choices: false ← (default) true
force_source boolean	Use with state=present to build, load or pull an image (depending on the value of the source option) when the image already exists. Choices: false ← (default) true
force_tag boolean	Use with state=present to force tagging an image. Choices: false ← (default) true
load_path path	Use with state=present to load an image from a .tar file. Set source=load if you want to load the image.
name string / required	Image name. Name format will be one of: name, repository/name, registry_server:port/name. When pushing or pulling an image the name can optionally include the tag by appending :tag_name. Note that image IDs (hashes) are only supported for state=absent, for state=present with source=load, and for state=present with source=local.
pull dictionary added in community.docker 1.3.0	Specifies options used for pulling images.
platform string	When pulling an image, ask for this specific platform. Note that this value is not used to determine whether the image needs to be pulled. This might change in the future in a minor release, though.
push boolean	Push the image to the registry. Specify the registry as part of the name or repository parameter. Choices: false ← (default) true
repository string	Use with state=present to tag the image. Expects format repository:tag. If no tag is provided, will use the value of the tag parameter or latest. If push=true, repository must either include a registry, or will be assumed to belong to the default registry (Docker Hub).
source string	Determines where the module will try to retrieve the image from. Use build to build the image from a Dockerfile. build.path must be specified when this value is used. Use load to load the image from a .tar file. load_path must be specified when this value is used. Use pull to pull the image from a registry. Use local to make sure that the image is already available on the local docker daemon. This means that the module does not try to build, pull or load the image. Choices: "build" "load" "pull" "local"
ssl_version string	Provide a valid SSL version number. Default value determined by SSL Python module. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_SSL_VERSION will be used instead.
state string	Make assertions about the state of an image. When absent an image will be removed. Use the force option to un-tag and remove all images matching the provided name. When present check if an image exists using the provided name and tag. If the image is not found or the force option is used, the image will either be pulled, built or loaded, depending on the source option. Choices: "absent" "present" ← (default)
tag string	Used to select an image when pulling. Will be added to the image when pushing, tagging or building. Defaults to latest. If name parameter format is name:tag, then tag value from name will take precedence. Default: "latest"
timeout integer	The maximum amount of time in seconds to wait on a response from the API. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TIMEOUT will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Default: 60
tls boolean	Secure the connection to the API by using TLS without verifying the authenticity of the Docker host server. Note that if validate_certs is set to true as well, it will take precedence. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TLS will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Choices: false ← (default) true
tls_hostname string	When verifying the authenticity of the Docker Host server, provide the expected name of the server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TLS_HOSTNAME will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Note that this option had a default value localhost in older versions. It was removed in community.docker 3.0.0.
use_ssh_client boolean added in community.docker 1.5.0	For SSH transports, use the ssh CLI tool instead of paramiko. Choices: false ← (default) true
validate_certs aliases: tls_verify boolean	Secure the connection to the API by using TLS and verifying the authenticity of the Docker host server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY will be used instead. If the environment variable is not set, the default value will be used. Choices: false ← (default) true

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
action_group	Action groups: community.docker.docker, docker	Use group/docker or group/community.docker.docker in module_defaults to set defaults for this module.
check_mode	Support: partial When trying to pull an image, the module assumes this is always changed in check mode.	Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.
diff_mode	Support: none	Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

• Building images is done using Docker daemon’s API. It is not possible to use BuildKit / buildx this way. Use community.docker.docker_image_build to build images with BuildKit.

• Connect to the Docker daemon by providing parameters with each task or by defining environment variables. You can define DOCKER_HOST, DOCKER_TLS_HOSTNAME, DOCKER_API_VERSION, DOCKER_CERT_PATH, DOCKER_SSL_VERSION, DOCKER_TLS, DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY and DOCKER_TIMEOUT. If you are using docker machine, run the script shipped with the product that sets up the environment. It will set these variables for you. See https://docs.docker.com/machine/reference/env/ for more details.

• This module does not use the Docker SDK for Python to communicate with the Docker daemon. It uses code derived from the Docker SDK or Python that is included in this collection.

See Also

See also

community.docker.docker_image_build

Build Docker images using Docker buildx.

community.docker.docker_image_export

Export (archive) Docker images.

community.docker.docker_image_info

Inspect docker images.

community.docker.docker_image_load

Load docker image(s) from archives.

community.docker.docker_image_pull

Pull Docker images from registries.

community.docker.docker_image_push

Push Docker images to registries.

community.docker.docker_image_remove

Remove Docker images.

community.docker.docker_image_tag

Tag Docker images with new names and/or tags.

Examples

- name: Pull an image
  community.docker.docker_image:
    name: pacur/centos-7
    source: pull
    # Select platform for pulling. If not specified, will pull whatever docker prefers.
    pull:
      platform: amd64

- name: Tag and push to docker hub
  community.docker.docker_image:
    name: pacur/centos-7:56
    repository: dcoppenhagan/myimage:7.56
    push: true
    source: local

- name: Tag and push to local registry
  community.docker.docker_image:
    # Image will be centos:7
    name: centos
    # Will be pushed to localhost:5000/centos:7
    repository: localhost:5000/centos
    tag: 7
    push: true
    source: local

- name: Add tag latest to image
  community.docker.docker_image:
    name: myimage:7.1.2
    repository: myimage:latest
    # As 'latest' usually already is present, we need to enable overwriting of existing tags:
    force_tag: true
    source: local

- name: Remove image
  community.docker.docker_image:
    state: absent
    name: registry.ansible.com/chouseknecht/sinatra
    tag: v1

- name: Build an image and push it to a private repo
  community.docker.docker_image:
    build:
      path: ./sinatra
    name: registry.ansible.com/chouseknecht/sinatra
    tag: v1
    push: true
    source: build

- name: Archive image
  community.docker.docker_image:
    name: registry.ansible.com/chouseknecht/sinatra
    tag: v1
    archive_path: my_sinatra.tar
    source: local

- name: Load image from archive and push to a private registry
  community.docker.docker_image:
    name: localhost:5000/myimages/sinatra
    tag: v1
    push: true
    load_path: my_sinatra.tar
    source: load

- name: Build image and with build args
  community.docker.docker_image:
    name: myimage
    build:
      path: /path/to/build/dir
      args:
        log_volume: /var/log/myapp
        listen_port: 8080
    source: build

- name: Build image using cache source
  community.docker.docker_image:
    name: myimage:latest
    build:
      path: /path/to/build/dir
      # Use as cache source for building myimage
      cache_from:
        - nginx:latest
        - alpine:3.8
    source: build

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
image dictionary	Image inspection results for the affected image. Returned: success Sample: {}
stdout string added in community.docker 1.0.0	Docker build output when building an image. Returned: success Sample: ""

Authors

• Pavel Antonov (@softzilla)

• Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)

• Sorin Sbarnea (@ssbarnea)

Collection links

• Issue Tracker
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• Submit a bug report
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